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The BERKSHIRE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,139 21406 0 4
United States (1880 census) 333 13211 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +806 -8195 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 20 52376 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BERKSHIRE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 241 3067 0.004 40
Ohio 142 8912 0.001 13
Illinois 82 15345 0.001 7
California 70 30193 0.000 2
Arizona 40 12638 0.001 8
Top States for BERKSHIRE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 241 3067 0.004 40
Wyoming 10 6607 0.002 20
Arkansas 38 6744 0.001 14
Ohio 142 8912 0.001 13
West Virginia 21 6609 0.001 12

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BERKSHIRE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BERKSHIRE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BERKSHIRE in Indiana than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BERKSHIRE by picking someone at random in Indiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BERKSHIRE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BERKSHIRE surname.

Ethnic distribution of BERKSHIRE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 8 0.7
Black/African American 5 0.44
White (Caucasian) 1,122 98.51
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BERKSHIRE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

BERKSHIRE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BERKSHIRE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BERKSHIRE.

Similar names to BERKSHIRE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BERKSHIRE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BERKSHIRE

The following words are slight variants of BERKSHIRE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.